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Just a reminder, tonight at 11 PM we will be performing an emergency maintenance on part of our electrical system. This will have an impact on a portion of our shared web and database servers, and eight dedicated and colocated servers. The shared hosting servers affected are:

acacia, acorn, alder, aralia, arrowwood, ash, aspen, avocado, balsa, balsam, bamboo, banana, banyan, bayberry, beech, bigleaf, blackberry, boojum, boxwood, bubinga, buckeye, cactus, cedar, cherry, chestnut, cholla, cinnamon, clover, columbia, commerce2, commerce3, cork, cottonwood, db, deerwood, dogwood, ebony, elm, evergreen, ficus, fig, filbert, fuji, gingko, grape, grapevine, hackberry, hazel, hemlock, hickory, ironbark, ivy, kentia, kola, kudzu, larch, laurel, lilac, lime, madrona, magnolia, mango, mangrove, maple, mesquite, mimosa, moringa, mulberry, myrtle, newninewire, ninewire2, olive, orchid, palmetto, papaya, pear, pecan, plum, poplar, privet, quince, redbud, sassafras, savin, sequoia, sherwood, snowberry, spiceberry, spruce, strawberry, sycamore, tamarack, teak, truffula, tutsan, walnut, woodpecker, yucca, yulan/fern

Every effort will be made to minimize the downtime. Our electricians have estimated the time required to complete the task at 2 hours.

Thank you for your patience and understanding while we strive to build a better facility.

Update 1:15 AM: The maintenance went very smoothly and was completed in under 90 minutes. We were able to supply alternate power to the few dedicated and colo servers involved in the maintenance. We also took the opportunity to replace some failed parts in a couple of servers (acorn for example whose fan inside the power supply had stopped working.)

Again, thank you so much for your patience during this critical maintenance interval.

bamboo is now back online, and we were able to perform a successful directory rebuild and hard drive optimization. Sever stability should be greatly enhanced at this point.

bamboo.forest.net is down for emergency maintenance.

posted by at 12:43 PM on Thursday, October 24, 2002
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bamboo.forest.net will be down for scheduled maintenance at 10 AM PT, October 23. We will be copying all data files to a new server for operational testing. We expect this should be under 30 minutes.

Should testing prove successful, the server will be down again at 3 PM PT, October 23 as we cut over to the new server.

Please watch this space for updates.

posted by at 04:53 PM on Tuesday, October 22, 2002
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bamboo.forest.net is now back online. During maintenance, hard disk problems were discovered, and we will be deploying a new hard drive in the server within the next 24 hours to prevent a total failure of the server.

Please watch this space for an emergency maintenance notice for when we replace the hard drive.

Until the drive is replaced, bamboo.forest.net may be more prone to system outages. Please be assured we are working as fast as possible to restore system stability.

bamboo.forest.net is now down for scheduled maintenance. Estimated downtime is two hours.

posted by at 10:03 AM on Monday, October 21, 2002
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bamboo.forest.net will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance for hard drive and directory optimization on Monday, October 21 at 10 am Pacific Time. Expected downtime is two hours.

posted by at 07:43 PM on Thursday, October 17, 2002
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